Port Dickson
Pantai Batu 1
Negeri Sembilan
It was a beautiful sunny blue-sky day. Perfect for an outdoor Sunday. By the seaside too. It was a good drive to Port Dickson to attend the Ghontak Nogoghi Festival. My focus was the lion dance competition but to my surprise, this festival was more. The Havoc food festival was also there, providing all sorts of food and drinks. Venue was perfect. Parking was easy. It was a no stress day until I realized I was “burnt” pretty drastically LOL.
Oh well, temporary hibernation and with dollops of Vitamin E cream and oil should cure me!!!
Negeri Sembilan is famous for the uniqueness of Adat Perpatih which is still practiced to this day, making it a cultural heritage that needs to be preserved. The GHONTAK NOGOGHI FESTIVAL aimed to introduce the arts and traditions of the local community.
With the theme "Lantai Adat, Laman Budayo", this carnival features performing arts, customs, and cultural products of Negeri Sembilan as a platform to preserve the country's heritage.
They also had lion dance competition, the Chingay flag balancing competition and performances of Indian drums.
HAVOC Food Festival was at Port Dickson as well. So that made the whole Port Dickson waterfront (Pantai Batu 1) festive. Rows and rows of food stalls with blue skies, perfect for an outdoor Sunday.
Loved the set-up, with trees around and the venue is by the sea.
Perfect!!!
Cheese Tarts
Chingay Flag Balancing is an acrobatic street performance. Performers balance giant flags which are about 25 to 32 feet tall, and weigh about 60 pounds - on different parts of their body like the forehead, shoulder, or even the mouth.
This act is a highlight of a Chingay parade, a multicultural street arts celebration originating from Penang in the 1880s. The word itself originated from the Hokkien phrase "chingay" (妝藝), meaning "costumed performance," or possibly "chin-gē" (真藝), meaning "true art".
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